Specification of Products and Product Lines
Ariel Gonzalez (Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Argentina), Carlos, Luna (Universidad ORT, Uruguay)

TL;DR
This paper presents a rule-based transformation approach that links feature models with UML statecharts, enabling the specification of product line behaviors through concrete UML state machines derived from variability models.
Contribution
It introduces a novel rule-based method to transform extended UML statecharts into concrete models using feature models, facilitating product line variability management.
Findings
Enables automatic generation of product-specific UML statecharts
Supports variability modeling in UML statecharts with feature models
Improves consistency between feature models and UML designs
Abstract
The study of variability in software development has become increasingly important in recent years. A common mechanism to represent the variability in a product line is by means of feature models. However, the relationship between these models and UML design models is not straightforward. UML statecharts are extended introducing variability in their main components, so that the behavior of product lines can be specified. The contribution of this work is the proposal of a rule-based approach that defines a transformation strategy from extended statecharts to concrete UML statecharts. This is accomplished via the use of feature models, in order to describe the common and variant components, in such a way that, starting from different feature configurations and applying the rule-based method, concrete state machines corresponding to different products of a line can be obtained.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Software Engineering Methodologies · Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques · Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
